Chapter 650 — The Might of the Sacred Wheel
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Beside them were the Empress and Princess Ling Yuxiu and the other princesses and the little prince, attended by a dozen palace maids. As for the Wheel of Creation, Shen Mu had taken out a great heap of calculation soldiers and assembled them into an enormous calculating instrument, ceaselessly computing away at something, one could not tell what.
"Your Majesty. " Chi Xi stepped forward and saluted.
"Since the covenant is made, I must leave Jingping and go to see the Divine Son. This time it was I, an outer vassal, who signed the covenant with Your Majesty, but the Divine Son must be informed as well; I beg Your Majesty to send envoys to the Chiming Suspended Void Realm to see the Divine Son.
" "That is as it should be.
" Emperor Yanfeng smiled. "When Lord Shen has finished testing the Wheel of Creation, I shall send several envoys with Daoist Chi Xi to the Suspended Void Realm.
Daoist Chi Xi, wait a little longer.
" Chi Xi assented and stood smiling to one side, quietly watching Shen Mu compute within the wheel. Ban Gongcuo wore a smile, perfectly at ease, thinking, "I have heard Emperor Yanfeng is a muddle-headed, unprincipled fellow who has heads cut off at the least provocation. In a moment, when Emperor Yanfeng discovers that the Wheel of Creation he paid so dearly for is useless, he will surely have that wretch's head cut off!
" Inside the Wheel of Creation, Shen Mu computed for a long while, then abruptly withdrew the calculation soldiers and laughed.
"I am utterly certain now! " Chi Xi smiled.
"Young friend Shen, if you wish to activate the wheel of my Chiming Era, by all means ask me; I can teach you.
" Shen Mu shook his head, and tried to light the activation rune on the wheel, shaking his head again. "You do not understand. Asking you would be of no use.
" Chi Xi was not the least angered.
He smiled. "The activation rune is not that one, young friend Shen.
Your calculation is wrong.
" "It is not wrong.
" Shen Mu floated within the wheel.
One rune after another on the Wheel of Creation lit up, the runes flowing and shifting like water, and then great wheels enclosed small wheels, divine wheels revolving one after another - and unlike when Chi Xi had driven it, these divine wheels were turning in reverse! Hum, hum, hum! The Wheel of Creation spun faster and faster, and beams of rune-light shone in every direction, sweeping in an instant over every person in that great courtyard!
Suddenly there came a crackling, popping sound.
Chi Xi looked hastily, and saw the bodies of Emperor Yanfeng and the others changing at furious speed: Emperor Yanfeng was majestic and imposing, yet now a fish's head had sprouted from his shoulders! And of the gods beside Emperor Yanfeng, some had heads turned into tree crowns, some into jellyfish, and even the Empress had become an enormous sea beast!
Chi Xi was stunned; he looked hurriedly at Ban Gongcuo, and Ban Gongcuo had already fallen prone on the ground, transformed into a great sea serpent, writhing and squirming! Chi Xi hastily felt at his own head, and gave a cry of alarm: his head too had become three enormous fish heads!
Nor was that all: his primordial spirit was changing as well, and the arcane power he had cultivated bitterly over hundreds of thousands of years could not be used at all! Chi Xi was panic-stricken.
He watched helplessly as his own legs became a fish's tail. Of all those present, apart from Shen Mu at the center of the wheel, only the Primordial Ancestor had not been assimilated by the Wheel of Creation - yet even his body was changing with thump after thump, now sprouting fish scales, now fish gills!
Clearly, even the Primordial Ancestor, the Human Emperor, could not wholly withstand the power of this Wheel of Creation!
This was no divine ability that inflicted enormous harm on others, but a strange power of Creation; the Primordial Ancestor, the Human Emperor, could resist it because he too had studied the arts of Creation. "This is bad!